DE-R-004

If both supplier and customer are located in Germany, the element "Seller post code" (BT-38) shall be provided.

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What the rule checks

As the rule set's publisher wrote it. The rule runs on every element the context matches, and fails where the test is false; the validator reports the line of that element.

Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 rules 3.0.21

Context

(/ubl-invoice:Invoice/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PostalAddress | /ubl-creditnote:CreditNote/cac:AccountingSupplierParty/cac:Party/cac:PostalAddress)[$supplierCountryIsDE and $customerCountryIsDE]

Test

cbc:PostalZone[boolean(normalize-space(.))]

Checked with Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 Invoice, Peppol BIS Billing 3.0 Credit Note

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